New Nordson ColorMax® 2 Powder Coating System Provides Fast Color Change
New Nordson ColorMax® 2 Powder Coating System Provides Fast, Contamination-Free Color Change and Easy Cleaning for Improved Productivity.
- SContamination-free color change in under 10 minutes.
- Minimizes powder in process, keeping the booth cleaner and speeding color change.
- Accessibility to all powder contact surfaces for easy visual inspection and cleaning.
- Innovative booth canopy allows powder to be blown-off of the booth interior and guns with ease.
- More comprehensive factory preassembly – including a new pre-wired, pre-plumbed utility deck – that cuts installation time by one-third.
- Break-away powder cyclone technology enables the upper and lower sections to be disconnected for thorough cleaning.
AMHERST, OH, May 24, 2013 – Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ-NDSN), a leader in liquid and powder coating technologies, introduces the ColorMax 2 engineered powder coating system. The new, fully integrated system incorporates features that ensure fast, contamination-free color change, easy installation and trouble-free maintenance, allowing powder coaters to increase productivity and line efficiency.
“The ColorMax 2 system is the latest-generation of Nordson’s contamination-free, fast color change powder systems,” explains Bob Allsop, North American marketing manager for Nordson Powder Coating. “We’ve incorporated features that are evolutionary – like the breakaway cyclone that takes our ‘if you can see it, you can clean it’ philosophy to the next level. But, we’ve also added in many revolutionary features, including the ability to install and clean the booth more easily than ever before. “Minimizing powder in the booth – and making whatever powder remains easy to clean – is one of the keys to fast, contamination-free color change,” he says.
With the ColorMax 2 system, all powder contact surfaces, including the innovative Nordson breakaway cyclone, are accessible for easy cleaning and visual inspection. The patent-pending dual cyclone enables the upper and lower sections to be disconnected for thorough cleaning. With most powders, the interior surface of the cyclone can be cleaned with just a compressed air wand. Splitting the upper and lower cyclone sections helps make this easier and more effective. With the breakaway cyclone, you can actually “see, clean and touch” the entire interior surface to make absolutely certain it is clean.
In addition, the ColorMax 2 booth features a non-conductive canopy for minimal powder attraction and retention. Constructed with patented Apogee® composite material, the booth’s is designed for minimal powder in process and faster color change. Less attraction also means less powder to clean during color change and easier removal of the powder from the canopy using only compressed air. The stainless steel booth floor provides maximum durability and grounding of operators during cleaning for safety.
As a fully integrated, engineered solution, the ColorMax 2 system also features Nordson technologies to ensure system efficiency, including the iControl® 2 integrated control system, Prodigy® HDLV technology, Encore® feed center and in-line pump, and Encore® manual and automatic guns. The system also incorporates a higher level of factory preassembly, including a new pre-wired, pre-plumbed utility deck that significantly cuts installation time. “The fully integrated design of the ColorMax 2 system substantially reduces downtime and material waste for improved productivity,” says Allsop. “With superior operating flexibility, powder coaters can easily manage a broad range of colors, as well as both short and long runs to fit lean production schedules. As a result, manufacturers achieve maximum productivity with minimum downtime.”
About Nordson ICS - Industrial Coating Systems Division
Founded in 1954 to produce and market airless spray equipment, today manufacturers rely on our equipment for the precise application and curing of powder coatings, liquid paint, ambient temperature adhesives and sealants, and food and beverage container production. Our solutions help our customers improve their manufacturing process, produce better products and become even more competitive. We do this by combining in-depth knowledge, world-leading technical expertise and precise, performance enhancing production solutions for some of the world’s most demanding and diverse manufacturing environments.
We offer world leading application and curing equipment for powder coating, liquid spray painting, container coating, automotive applications, battery applications and precision dispensing for various application needs. Visit Nordson ICS on the web at Nordson Website, Twitter Profile, Facebook Profile and LinkedIn Profile.
About Nordson Corporation
Nordson engineers, manufactures, and markets differentiated products and systems used for dispensing and processing adhesives, coatings, polymers, sealants and biomaterials; and for managing fluids, testing and inspecting for quality, treating surfaces and curing. These products are supported with extensive application expertise and direct global sales and service.
We serve a wide variety of consumer non-durable, consumer durable and technology end markets including packaging, nonwovens, electronics, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, building and construction, and general product assembly and finishing. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, the company has operations and support offices in more than 30 countries. Visit Nordson on the web at Nordson Website, twitter.com/Nordson_Corp or facebook.com/nordson.